In the Hebrew Bible, the scribes did not alter any text they felt had been copied incorrectly. Rather they noted in the margin what they though the written text should be. The written variation is called a kethiv and the marginal note is called the qere. Where the translators of the Authorised Versi ...

In the Hebrew Bible, the scribes did not alter any text they felt had been copied incorrectly. Rather they noted in the margin what they though the written text should be. The written variation is called a kethiv and the marginal note is called the qere. Where the translators of the Authorised Versi ...

Sometimes, a word or phrase has individual Strong's numbers assigned to it and it has an additional Strong's number for the entire phrase. In Jud. 20:18 the phrase "house of God" is coded as "house of God " In this case the phrase could also mean place Bethel which has the Strong's number 01008 ...

There are several marginal or qere readings for a kethiv reading. In Neh. 5:7 the word "exact" is coded as "exact ". The two marginal readings, Strong's numbers 05378 and 05383 exist for the one kethiv reading 05375.